Subj : Big fat warning, oh my!
To   : John Wilson
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Wed Oct 25 2000 08:59 pm

 
 CJ> ...in Greek
 CJ> "Caesar God" adds up to 616...
 
 CJ>  An alternate proposal for the origin of the 616 variant is
 CJ> that Caligula was originally meant, because his numerology adds
 CJ> up to 616...

 JW> I used to be fascinated by gematria and Ex. 14:19,20,21 containing
 JW> the 72 names of God...that sort of thing.

	Corresponding to the supposed # of nations (sometimes 70, 
sometimes 72--depending, I suppose, on whether Israel and Judea
were being included.  I wonder if a list was ever made of the 70.)

 JW> <sigh> :-)

 JW> I had the privledge of interviewing (for two hours) Noam Chomsky;
 JW> during a commercial break I sez t' him: "Yer Father is/was a Hebrew
 JW> Scholar...is there ANY validity to Gematria? He assured me that there
 JW> was not. Drat. Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tinker Bell, Tooth
 JW> Fairy...now that. Mere reality is a drag, y'know? :-)

	Numerology is a much easier fallacy to fall into if your
language has no separate characters for numerals.  
 
 CJ>  Nitpick--it's GMark that has the variant endings.

 JW> Turnabout is fair play. :-) Yes. Drat.

	Hee-hee.  



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